[lug] Gnome rant and request for suggestions.

Ed Hill ed at eh3.com
Mon Jul 10 20:00:55 MDT 2006


On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 18:22 -0600, Zan Lynx wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 16:40 -0600, Jason Davis wrote:
> >  So gnome and metacity have left me disgusted. Im tired if 
> > being psuedo bullied into using spatial browsing or no
> 
> I'm a Gnome fan, and I like it. :)  But for your question ... try XFCE.
> It is pretty nice.

I'm another happy Xfce user.  I think it compares favorably with Gnome
and Enlightenment (through E 0.16) which I used for some years
previously.

And, if you happen to use Fedora, the Xfce install is quite easy:

  sudo yum groupinstall XFCE

and you should be all set!

Ed

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